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Summary: Charlie Croker never read "the Millionaire Next Door"
Review: What a useless, wasteful novel about nothing except the exploitation of money. The only character worth reading about, Conrad, was barely mentioned in the ending. I cannot believe I read the whole thing, I can't not believe it was the number 1 best seller for several weeks. Who cared about all the final epiloge of Wes and Roger. I have never read Tom Wolfe before and probably never will again. Horrible book....
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Summary: An extraordinary and entertaining satire
Review: Four stars instead of five because I believe the book can be edited more stringently. Sustainable satire is difficult to write and in this age, I believe, it is even harder to understand. We live in an "ironic" age where irony and satire are misunderstood or misued, and every serious expression is placed in quotes. That said, Mr. Wolfe has given us a satirical view of America as it exists vis a vis race and sexual relations. It's not just a Saturday Night Live skit. Race is the most serious issue blocking our path to undertaking the class issue that is literally killing us all. Sex has become politicized to the point of absurdity. Amused as we might be by many of the characters antics, childishness and boorishness, to name only a few, Wolfe's book presents serious issues to contemplate. As far as character: Mr. Wolfe's Charlie Croker was well drawn, believable and consistent. For satire this I believe is quite an achievement. To Mr. Wolfe I would say continue on this path and let no one, not even yourself off the hook. I do think the last chapter fizzled. Rework it if there's another edition, please. One last comment: the religion of Zeus fits in with the pronouncement that DeToqueville made about Americans and religion. Right on to that.
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Summary: Tom Wolfe is a Genius
Review: Ask any reviewer1. Are you Black? 2. Did you vote for Clinton? 3. Are you from the South? If the answer to any of these questions is yes... disregard anything they say about Wolfe or his writing. Five stars.
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Summary: Good if you like Wolfe, terrible ending
Review: If you like the way Wolfe writes, you like his characters and his style, then you'll enjoy this book as you read it. But I was *really* disappointed in the ending. It seems like all the characters are going to come together in a terrific ending, and...... >poof< it finished with a whimper. Very disappointing.
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Summary: Made-for-TV Soap Opera
Review: Aside from the fact that I found several grossly eroneous editing errors, I found "A Man in Full" to not be worth the paper it's printed on. (And, by the way, it could easily be half the paper.) The characters were unlikeable, unbelievable, and flat. The plot was base and trivial. The climax was ridiculous. Burning this book would not be a bad option.
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Summary: Why people say it's stupid? But it's GREAT!!!
Review: Speaking on the Author of one of the greatest novel of the century, I felt so defeated of my first impression on him. Well, I never really heard of him before and that his sudden claim as one of the most prominent novelist in the world startled me. But it was true how he shaped a masterpiece, and that is none other than his latest " A man in full" setting plot in Atlanta brought us to a spectacular visit from the rich and famous to the English Avenue of the city. Where the majorities were black and the power belongs to the white, the story deceive readers and had many twist and turns. Charlie a developer owes the bank have a billion and needed to leash out some of the lots from his titanic construction the "Croker Concourse" while Roger White the black lawyer is to handle a case which accidentally and falll on the wrong hands may turned it into a racial riot! In the journey, Tom introduces many fascinating character that builds the society the way it seems, he also plot a cast in The Stoic where some very valueble philosophies can be learnt from. A must read...
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Summary: Save your time, integrity and money
Review: All the depth of a baby pool . .
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Summary: Over-blown, over-hyped, boring and badly written
Review: The plot is non-existent until about page 500 when, at last, you begin to care what happens to a character. Alas, 100 pages later you are again bored out of your mind!! Too many unlovable, self-absorbed characters ... sound like most of what's on TV. What is a reader to do when this is what is touted as good literature in America? The only question left is, "Why did I finish it?"
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Summary: Sometimes better than Bonfire; Others not
Review: This farce is a real corker! Charlie Croker exists is every city in the USA! Wolfe again captures the male ego. This flight of fancy is the bomb. If you take out the unbelievably horrible ending to the book and replace it with another, it becomes this century's epic. Let us just hope that the now 68 year old Wolfe is not too old to produce another novel.
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Summary: a towering tower of a tale
Review: 742 pages of edifice, hiding the fact that all characters but two are superfluous, and those two come together in a most unconvincing way, to a dopey climax of miniscule proportions. Wolfe is good at language -- jail/street talk, southern patois, lovingly described architecture, sartorial detail, interior decorating; but his characters leave you unmoved. He seems obsessed with getting old -- at 60. He describes all women in purely sexual terms. His book is hollow and fundamentally dull.
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